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113TH CONGRESS 

1ST SESSION H. RES. 57 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that in order to continue 

aggressive growth in the Nation’s telecommunications and technology 

industries, the United States Government should ‘‘Get Out of the Way 

and Stay Out of the Way’’. 

IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 

FEBRUARY 6, 2013 

Mr. LATTA submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 

Committee on Energy and Commerce 

RESOLUTION 

Expressing the sense of the House of Representatives that 

in order to continue aggressive growth in the Nation’s 

telecommunications and technology industries, the United 

States Government should ‘‘Get Out of the Way and 

Stay Out of the Way’’. 

Whereas the technology and communications industries in the 

United States have historically been some of the most 

competitive in the world and devoid of burdensome Government regulations; 

Whereas the United States has over 85,000,000 wireline 

broadband connections; 

Whereas wireless auctions are the reason the United States 

has over 235,000,000 wireless broadband connections; 


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Whereas public-private partnerships, like those piloted by organizations such as Connected Nation, have raised 

broadband subscription rates, especially in rural areas, by 

increasing both broadband supply and demand without 

having to rely on regulation; 

Whereas deregulatory policies and free-market competition 

consistently yield a higher rate of economic growth, a 

greater standard of living for all Americans, and an enhanced capacity for the United States to be competitive 

in the global marketplace; 

Whereas the digital age not only expands an individual’s 

reach and ability to connect with family and friends, provides new and exciting educational opportunities, and expands a growing global economy, while simultaneously exposing an individual to a myriad of new threats such as 

identity theft and other methods of online victimization, 

and resulting in the increase of attempted criminal cyber 

attacks on businesses and communications networks; and 

Whereas we should continually strive to advance this rapidly 

growing source of social and economic benefit to the Nation: Now, therefore, be it 

1 Resolved, That it is the sense of the House of Rep2 resentatives that in order to continue aggressive growth 

3 in the Nation’s telecommunications and technology indus4 tries, the United States Government should ‘‘Get Out of 

5 the Way and Stay Out of the Way’’ by— 

6 (1) promoting investment through deregulation 

7 and free-market competition; 


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1 (2) making additional spectrum available for 

2 commercial usage through unencumbered auctions, 

3 reallocation of Federal spectrum, and efficient spec4 trum sharing; 

5 (3) establishing a national goal of transmitting 

6 high-quality, real-time voice, data, graphics, and 

7 video at increasingly higher speeds to all people in 

8 the United States, especially in rural and under9 served areas; 

10 (4) ensuring individual privacy protections with11 out compromising marketplace efficiencies; and 

12 (5) promoting cyber threat sharing for allowing 

13 the private sector to actively defend their commu14 nications networks. 

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